Thursday, 9 July 2009

After the blog posts on Article 207 TEC and Article 240 TFEU, as well as on Swedish openness and the Lisbon Treaty, Information about EU Council: Swedish Presidency and first aid and Free EU Council publications, we turn to more detailed provisions.

While we are waiting for the Swedish EU Council Presidency to publish proposals for the new Rules of Procedure of the Council and other decisions concerning the implementation of the Treaty of Lisbon, we look at the existing Council’s Rules of Procedure.

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Council’s Rules of Procedure

Detailed rules on the Council of the European Union are given in Council Decision 2006/683/EC, Euratom of 15 September 2006 adopting the Council's Rules of Procedure, originally published in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) 16.10.2006 L 285/47.

ANNEX IIIDETAILED RULES FOR IMPLEMENTING THE PROVISIONSCONCERNING THE WEIGHTING OF VOTES IN THE COUNCIL

ANNEX IV(1. In application of the following provisions of the Rules of Procedure and fordecisions in respect of which, under the Treaties, members of the Council orof Coreper may not participate in the vote, account is not to be taken of votesby such members:)

ANNEX VWORKING METHODS FOR AN ENLARGED COUNCIL

ANNEX VIPROVISIONS CONCERNING THE FORMS OF ACTS

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Next, we are going to turn to Coreper, then the General Secretariat and finally publications about the Council of the European Union.